Martin Theobald has been appointed as a Professor of Computer Science with a focus on “Big Data” by the University of Luxembourg in February 2017. He previously held positions as a Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) at the University of Ulm and as a Professor in the Advanced Database Research and Modeling (ADReM) group at the University of Antwerp. He obtained a doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken in 2006 and subsequently spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stanford University Infolab. Between 2008 and 2012, Martin led the research group for “Ranking and Uncertain Data Management” at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.